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Devonthink to go 2.0 release2/24/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Since the outline still appears in iOS under “Other Documents” my assumption is that it would pick up the changes made on the Mac and synced to iOS.īut this does not appear to be the case. ![]() I make some changes to that outline in OO on my Mac, save, let DEVONthink sync. The changes appear to propagate to DTTG, and subsequently to my desktop (using DEVONThink’s syncing). After making some change on OO in iOS I close the outline. I used the document provider to grab an outline from DEVONthink To Go (DTTG). What I can say already is that the update to version 2.0 will be free of charge for everyone already using DEVONthink To Go version 1. I know that some of you will be mad about this post but I hope that most of you will understand the challenges we’re facing in building a really good iOS companion for an app as mighty as DEVONthink for Mac.I fully realize that the use of external document storage is in beta, but I’m posting here to hopefully help with the development of this feature. So instead of making a guess that could be wildly off I’ll wait until we’re absolutely sure that it’s ready for prime-time before making that announcement. Unlike Douglas Adams popup: true we don’t like the whooshing sound deadlines make as they fly by but we have heard it more than once. Rewriting a complex app like DEVONthink To Go 2 takes a while - and much longer than we have hoped. Now to the most pressing question: When will version 2.0 be released? Not yet I am afraid. We’re adding the sync now, tags, an assistant for creating documents, and integration with other apps. But there’s still a lot of work to do until the final release. Due to the lack of rich text and proper PDF support in iOS we embedded a wholly new rich text engine and a full-blown PDF library.įinally, we have, of course, already adapted large parts of the user interface to iOS 7 the rest is up to the user interface and user experience designer we have hired to make DEVONthink To Go 2 look great. So where are we today with DEVONthink To Go 2? It’s already running here on our iPads and iPhones, takes documents through iTunes, allows you to organize them in any way you like (move, replicate, duplicate, trash, rename, …), search them with full Boolean operator support, and view and edit a number of document types: plain text, formatted notes, PDFs, images, audio and video files, bookmarks, and HTML files. Whenever we completed something Apple overtook us with another operating system release with new opportunities but also once or twice the necessity to fundamentally change the inner workings. The tools for and the programming interfaces in iOS have extended rapidly since then so there was no point in extending our old app architecture when much more modern ways to write an iOS app became available. In just one and a half years until the final release we rewrote it for iOS 3.0, then the iPad form factor, and finally iOS 4.0. When we developed version 1.0 we started on iPhone OS 2.0 with no database support at all. And I mean it: we have not reused a single line of code so far. While we have fixed quite a few of these issues, and still do, we have concentrated mostly on developing version 2.0 from scratch. We know that version 1.x of DEVONthink To Go has its flaws, especially in the synchronization code. I already mentioned that we’re working on a new release and so I want to give you an update on our progress. I n our user forum, via Twitter, and by email quite a few of you are asking us about the future of DEVONthink To Go, the iOS companion to DEVONthink for Mac. ![]()
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